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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"problem of induction"”.
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The world in His hands: a Christian account of scientific law and its antithetical competitors
This dissertation examines the Christian doctrine of divine providence and its implications for the laws of nature and problem of induction before contrasting secular and Islamic approaches to these same topics. Chapter 1 introduces the topic of a Christian account of scientific law by citing …
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Building Black Holes: Analogue experiments and analogical reasoning
… systems that are meant to mirror the behaviour of less accessible ‘target’ systems. This disseration aims to answer two questions about analogue experiments. First, what are they useful for? Second, how do analogical reasoning and the reasoning underlying analogue experimentation compare to …
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A Bayesian framework for concept learning
Human concept learning presents a version of the classic problem of induction, which is made particularly difficult by the combination of two requirements: the need to learn from a rich (i.e. nested and overlapping) vocabulary of possible concepts and the need to be able to generalize concepts …
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Towards a Flexible Bayesian and Deontic Logic of Testing Descriptive and Prescriptive Rules
Die Wasonsche Informationswahlaufgabe (WST) ließ fundamentale Zweifel an der Rationalität menschlichen Hypothesentestens aufkommen und inspirierte die Entwicklung sowohl domänenspezifischer als auch domänenübergreifender Theorien des Denkens. In dieser Arbeit wird ein Synthesevorschlag entwickelt, …